Mirocapritermes jiangchengensis Yang, Zhu & Huang, 1995 江城瘤白蚁

Recorded in Fauna Sinica

The morphological and biological accounts below are taken from Fauna Sinica and related literature; only structure and punctuation have been standardized here.

Morphology

Soldier

Body yellow, abdomen milky white; head sparsely covered with short hairs, more numerous in front of the frontal projection, the tip of the labrum with six to eight long hairs in rows of two, the anterolateral corners of the postmentum each with three short hairs; the margins of the pronotum with a few long hairs and the median area with several short ones; legs sparsely covered with short hairs, the tibiae spinose, the abdomen densely and shortly pubescent. Head rectangular, the frontal projection arcuate and distinctly projecting; labrum more than twice as long as wide, band-like, the anterior margin deeply concave, the anterolateral corners pointed and slightly projecting outwards. Mandibles asymmetrical, the anterior part of the left mandible twisted, its apex curved to the right into a hook; right mandible blade-like, shorter than the left. Postmentum nearly rectangular, widest anteriorly, the waist inconspicuous, narrowest at the anterior margin. Antennae with 14 segments, segments 2 and 3 about equal in length and longer than segment 4. Pronotum saddle-shaped, the anterior and posterior margins both arcuate and not concave in the middle; tibial spur formula 3:2:2.

Alate

Head covered with dense short hairs and scattered a few long setae; postclypeus without a median line; fontanelle small and narrow, slit-like. The distance from the apical tooth of the left mandible to the first marginal tooth equals the distance from the first to the third marginal tooth; the distance from the apical tooth of the right mandible to the first marginal tooth slightly greater than the spacing between the first marginal teeth. Tibial spur formula 3:2:2, the apical spine on the upper surface of the foreleg distinctly reduced.

Worker

Nymph

Abstract (from the source)

Biology

Distribution and locality

Kangping, Jiangcheng, Yunnan, 920 m above sea level.

Taxonomic notes

Source: Huang Fusheng et al. (2000), Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 17, Isoptera, Science Press. (entry no. 353 in the original work) Entries are cited by their number in the original work.